01 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
If you judged everything by what the media tells us, you would get the impression that the world is in continuous revolt. Violence, destruction and protest is everywhere. It’s like as if every hour of the day there is one reason or another to go marching, standing or sitting somewhere about something.
Well, that’s the impression one may get.
01 Wednesday Oct 2014
As legal sources close to the Westminster Bar would have it, an alleged fan of Stewart Lee, a leading English social commentator, writer, director, musician and stand-up comedian, has called on the power of big data outcomes to highlight changing demographics and to place hot-topic issues of people and society in the public forum. Continue reading
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Business, Business Management, business strategy, Organisational Autism, Strategy
You’ve heard the stories. Little Johnny did this, little Johnny did that, little Johnny did god knows what.
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Climate Change, Excerpt, Peeves
You may well have seen all the climate change events around the world. 23rd September saw the biggest ever Climate Change awareness march the world has produced to date. Al Gore was there, Ban Ki Moon was there, Leonardo DiCaprio was there… even Prince Chuck was there.
28 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Excellence
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Behavioural Economics, business analysis, Business Enablement, business intelligence, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism
Young Einstein was awaiting the birth of his sister. His mother and father had been telling him for months to look forward to having somebody to play with. When Einstein eventually got to see his sister, he exclaimed disappointedly “But, it doesn’t have wheels!”
That happens a lot in IT. Young Einstein had a very good excuse, we don’t.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Business Management, Information and Technology, Information Technology, Organisational Autism, Strategy
People are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the quality and quantity of many self-styled data warehousing and business intelligence professionals, organisations, and individuals. The perceived and increasing degradation of professionalism and integrity in my own areas of specialisation also finds echo in other aspects of Information and Communication Technology practice, but for now, that is outside the scope of this piece.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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There is a general consensus that Data Warehousing first appeared in the 1980s. However, the components of Data Warehousing were being developed and implemented as early as the 1960s. Many individuals are credited with discovering Data Warehousing. Wikipedia has a great chronological timeline that provides a lot of context for the evolution of data warehousing methodologies.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Business, Business Enablement, corporate assets, Goal Setting, Information and Technology, Information Technology, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism, Strategy, traditional assets
Far too few CEOs regularly think about IT on a habitual basis, and especially as something that is potentially integrated into everything their companies do and could do. This, however, is not at all surprising; there is a general lack of time for any CEO to be actively involved in what IT does, and they will generally have some degree of misunderstanding of both the historic roles and the relative successes and failures of IT.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, Information Technology, Organisational Autism, Strategy
From banking to airlines, through communications businesses to pharmaceutical companies, the IT landscape is littered with failures of Homeric proportions, lost opportunities and profligate waste. Across the spectrum of commercial enterprise, the IT bottom line is inevitably familiar: in general, businesses expose themselves to unnecessary levels of disruption, and spend far too much time and money on IT projects, IT products and internal IT services that frankly suck.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Martyn Richard Jones
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Reality bites down hard when it wants to, and more often than not when we are least expecting it. IT is seldom given importance for valid business reasons, such as its support of operational excellence or the quality support of valuable, mission-critical business, and bureaucratic reasons are not necessarily business reasons; they are frequently at the forefront of business life for primarily negative reasons.
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